General hysterical diet related rambling: From Flab to Fab.

:D *Blush* !!!!

Glad everyone likes my different cuisine every week idea :)

Tetm, you should try one new food a week, every Monday or something, I'm so glad that I have gone on my mission to try every single recipe that I possibly can. I've discovered so many new foods which I love, and I know that I will soon discover new favourites. I think if I hadn't tried all these new things I would be missing out on so much flavour wise.

Tonight was a GREAT example of that.... the salmon ROCKED. And to think I was dreading it seems unreal now.

KenWalking is quite frowned upon in America isn't it? Your like a social pariah if you haven't got a car :) Not that many people in London drive, for various reasons. Its £300 a year to park a car outside your own house, the roads are mega slow, the signposts are awful, you need to pay £15 a day if you are driving through the centre of London, if you do find a parking space you will need to pay £20 a day.... Its unreal. That said, we are nowhere near as active as Asian and mainland European countries. We could learn a lot from them.

This is the salmon.... The dressing for the cucumber was lovely.... I am full up, but even after eating 200 calories worth of fruit tonight, I'm still going to be under my calorie budget.

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Food
Porridge with a grated apple 321
salmon in miso and mirin marinade with basmati rice and cucumber ribbons 456
Mango and 2 plums 195
6 coffees 150
=1122

Exercise
15 minutes trampoline
15 minutes bodyweight resistance
5 minutes stretches
 
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well i can nearly taste that fish in your plate....mmmmmm....drooling!

What is MISO?its needed in the recepie.Ho long did you cook the salmon for?
 
It was DELICIOUS! Miso is a Japanese paste made from fermented barley (I think), there's all sorts of types. I think that if you can get hold of it, you should definitely try this recipe out! It was a little bit sweet, with a mild creamy flavour. You were supposed to wipe the marinade off before cooking it, but I'm glad i left it on as it was gorgeous. I cooked it for under 10 minutes. I had a nibble on the salmon before I cooked it, and it was okay! Would probably be lovely with the dressing you described. I'm doing another salmon recipe in a couple of days, I think I'll brave it and go raw! Eeeeek!
 
Looks delish Ruth!

Love the cucumber ribbons.

I love cooking so much but I just don't do it as much as I used to. I live at home but I am moving out in September (hopefully construction finishes then...) to an apartment and I am already grabbing little things for my kitchen. Did a little scouting on prices in the states for pots and pans and utensils while I was in the US.

WoW! I can't believe how expensive it is to drive a car around London! Vancouver is really expensive too for parking - meters are about 2$ for 20 minutes in downtown! There are no permit fees for parking outside your house or driving through central vancouver though. But insurance costs about $2-3000 a year.

Can't wait to pimp my kitchen out and cook some simple good food and post it to make people drool like your salmon! :D

Mm..i love miso!
 
It really makes me angry that it costs so much to park. Especially that hospitals charge for parking! I know someone who owns a tool rental shop with a large car park next to it. There is the occasional concert nearby, and on those days he charges people to park there and he makes £2000 a day!

If your on the lookout for new kitchen bits and bobs, get a "green pan" for frying, they are amazing. They have a ceramic layer inside, and the cooking time seems to be halved, things get really crispy with a tiny bit of oil, and they have a really nice weight to them. And also make sure you get silicone utensils as they won't scratch your pans up, and they'll last forever.

Bet you are so excited about getting your own place :D Looking forwards to seeing what yummies you cook.
 
Just poking my head in to say that I'm still reading and cheering you on (albeit a lot less vocally at the moment). Really impressed by the Japanese cuisine.

Also wanted to offer some sympathy on the taking Charlie out with you front. I don't know if I've mentioned it here (and/ or if you've seen it) but I have high functioning autism and I know I could make my mother's life difficult at times (at this stage in life I'm probably somewhere between "mild Asperger's" and "a bit quirky", but I had a lot more social difficulties when I was younger- to some extent I've grown out of it/ learned to cope in a way that looks like I've grown out of it- and I meet the "autism" rather than the "Asperger's" definition by a technicality). It sounds like (at least if I were in your son's shoes) sensory overload, which is awful to go through. But (if he's anything like me, I wouldn't presume to say, particularly given it sounds like his autism is infinitely worse than mine) it can be overcome. My overload triggers I still find unpleasant, but "grit my teeth, concentrate really hard on what I have to do, and battle through" rather than "curl up in the foetal position on the floor and scream". I hope you're getting the support you need and he's getting the behavioural therapy to help him cope later in life (I was diagnosed very late and that's something that would have made my life a lot easier). (The NAS in the UK are pretty bloody amazing) (... sorry if I overdid that- this "appropriate" thing can evade me at times)
 
Thanks so much Amy :D

What is sensory overload like for you?

I was supposed to be going to a seminar tomorrow on coping strategies (with the NAS actually) but it was cancelled as there wasn't enough people boohoo. He is as far away from your end of the spectrum as he could possibly be :( He says less than 15 words on a regular basis, and I think not being able to communicate must be so hard for him.

I have the curled up foetal position on the floor practically every trip out lol, the only way to get him to move is to put him on my back, and carry him like that. Was easier when he was portable! I very rarely take both the kids out together on my own because of it, because pushing a buggy whilst he has his hands round my neck strangling me is impossible.

I have read lots of hopeful stories about kids like Charlie who are doing better than anyone could ever have imagined, so I have got hope. Last week he said "Yeah, I did it!" and it absolutely stunned me, I was SO happy.

He has a behavioural therapy meeting every Monday. I do worry about his future. People can be so horrible. I used to be a bit "Icky" around people with obvious severe special needs when I was young (which i hate myself for now), but when you have a kid who you love so much with them, your views on this sort of thing completely change. But other people's don't. He isn't as little and cute as he used to be, and him going through puberty will be the scariest thing ever for me.

Well, that was depressive!

Tomorrow is weigh day :) <--- Yep, that's a happy face (for a change)! It'll be 8 days since I've stepped on the scales. I've not had a single bad day, so hopefully this weigh in will be the best yet! I am secretly hoping for three pounds. Ooops, not a secret any more! If I am 12 stone something, I will be ecstatic!!! I have lost a third of an inch of my waist, so even if I don't lose 3lbs, at least that's something.

The miso marinated chicken was lovely, had a hoi sin sort of vibe to it, but even more tasty. I put some rice vinegar on the rice noodles, which was really rice (Oops, sorry- nice.). Sorry about the crap pics of late, I have ordered a new camera charger off ebay, as I've lost it.



Food
Porridge with brown sugar 295
Nectarine and banana 168
with rice noodles. 444
3 small pears 225
5 coffees 125
=1258

Exercise
20 minute workout
1 hour hardcore cleaning
 
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Sensory overload- to some extent it's the name. There's too much going on around me, it makes me panic, and I shut down (or I used to). Imagine 100 people standing around you in a crowded room all trying to have important conversations with you- that's what talking in a group is like for me (even "more than one other person"- I can't do it, and I can only concentrate on one person at once. That's my coping mechanism, because otherwise I just wouldn't take anything in. Fortunately for most people that's "normal enough"). Sensory overload feels more like 100 people shouting at you and/ or trying to assault you in a claustrophobic space- too much noise, feels dangerous, raises anxiety response, nothing goes in, self-defence comes into play. (This is regardless of the situation- I can have sensory overload anywhere) I've heard that people with ASDs either have stronger senses or don't know what cues to pay attention to, so pay attention to everything, which is overwhelming. If I do nothing about it, I will just hit the floor (or sit in a corner) and cry in some sort of curled up position. But fortunately the coping mechanisms have become a lot more natural to me, and now I recognise the problem, concentrate really hard on what I need to do or where I need to go, and talk myself through the situation- the noise and anxiety is still there, especially in places that are big triggers for me (crowds, when salespeople come up to me in the street, or when I'm being rushed in a social situation (like at a checkout)), but it's like turning down the volume on the TV and trying to ignore it. Quite often I'm still anxious when I'm coping with sensory overload, but I can deal with it later, if that makes sense.

I can see the not communicating thing from both sides, and it must be awful. I've been mostly on par verbally (my speech was delayed by a couple of years, but while my neurotypical brother started talking with "mama, dada", I apparently started closer to "mummy can I have some juice please?") There were lots of instances in my childhood which I remember quite vividly where I'd want to achieve something socially, see someone else do something to achieve that end, and I'd do what I thought was the same thing and get the opposite result, and it was incredibly frustrating. To this day very few people truly "get" me, and I have to adapt myself to make myself comprehensible to people. But on the other hand I can't imagine how difficult it is to not be able to speak to your son (and I have met people more on the spectrum than me who I find very difficult to communicate with).

My parents tell stories about me as a success story of someone with an ASD, although I'm not sure how much overlap there'd be with Charlie. I was told when I was 9 that I should be transferred to a "special school" because my intellectual capacities had been met and I was "retarded". I was told quite a lot through high school that I'd never get my HSC (it's like A-levels). I was nearly institutionalised (permanently) at a couple of points, and I was given little hope of a normal adult life. When the diagnosis finally came some of my teachers started treating me like I was stupid, even though I was one of their top students. I've moved across the world from family and friends, established my own completely independent life, and I'm doing a PhD. And while socially I'm not "normal", I'm doing pretty bloody well, thank you very much. So yes, there is hope.

People can be awful, there's no denying that. Unfortunately even at my level of an ASD (most of the time I "pass" as neurotypical but a bit eccentric) I cop some flak. My strong advice would be, if it's possible given his level of function, to find what he likes (his obsession) and get him into that if it stands a chance of providing him with a career. Particularly if he has a supportive environment there, that will make all the difference in the world.
 
I agree with sweat daily....lol..I have decided I can no longer read your or jasper's threads...all they do is make me hungry...joke!

I really am going to try to some new tastes..once a week I will try something new and I will take a pic of it too...now I am really really picky..so it might be a boring pic of an onion or a radish...LMAO!!

Keep up the great eating habits..rainbow!! you are doing great!! :)
 
I'm a bit old school when it comes to my pots and pans.

I like the stainless steel and I also am eyeing a cast iron pan :)

I actually hate non-stick pans!! lol

I find I can't really brown things properly on the nonstick pans.

good luck with the weigh in :)
 
AmyYou have done brilliantly managing to cope with situations that must be hellish for you. I couldn't actually believe it at first when you said you had Aspbergers, as you've travelled the furthest distance possible from your home, doing a phd, got a boyfriend. You seem completely normal to me, and people who treat you like you are stupid because of your label are just ignorant, and I feel sorry for them. It must be hard for you, but I admire how strong you must be to manage to overcome the challenges that you are faced with on a day to day basis.

I can't believe that you were told you are retarded, when you are so obviously not.

You described sensory overload so well I could almost feel it. I have read a lot about Autism, but nothing I have read comes close to the powerful way you put it.

Thank you so much for sharing that with me :grouphug:

Sorry for making everyone hungry lol :eek:

I used to be SO picky too Tetm. Apparently kids have s third more taste buds than adults, so if you are not trying new things because you hated them as a kid, you might actually like it now. Really glad your going to try and broaden your food horizons :D But I will be having words with you if you sick up a pic of a radish lol.

Ken, well you were a chef, so I won't be arguing with you! But the ceramic on the green pan conducts heat as well as the old-school pans, which is why I am so impressed with them, they brown stuff really fast and brilliantly :)

I LOST 6.6 POUNDS THIS WEEK!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Yes, you heard! So I'm now only 8lbs away from being a healthy BMI. CRAZINESS! Maybe I will fit into that dress by the time decisionmakers back lol.

I ate a lot of salty foods the weekends before the last two weighdays (where i lost nothing), so maybe I was retaining water and the weight loss didn't show up. I don't know, all I know is that I am NOT COMPLAINING. At all. I'm on my period for chrissakes. Unbelievable.

Really hope today isn't a fluke, and next week I'm even lower.

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
 
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Omg!!!!!! U just made me give a little screech!!!! I scared my cell mate...aka..cubicle buddy!
Pass some of that mojo across the pond please..haha! I'm so happy for u... that hot dress is gonna zip right up soon enough!

ps.
I'm in my phone..don't mind the txt talk :)
 
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Wooooo 6.6 lbs in a week. Damn, girl! That's almost 1lb a day!!!! FRIGGIN AMAZING. :hurray:

I hope you weren't doing this all week.. :puke:

jaykay! Just wanted a reason to use the smily :)
 
Thanks! I'm beaming it over to you now Tetm!

I hate that sick smiley. Actually makes me feel like vomiting!

Tonight's dinner.... I think I went overboard with trying to make it look pretty, to the point of ridiculousness lol. I tried to artfully drip the marinade around the plate, which was a FAIL.

I couldn't get over the fact I was eating raw salmon... that said, it was nice, so I might give it another go.



I got my free box from graze, they gave me banofee pie", which is banana coins, almond, fudge and pecans, wasabi peanut crackers, fruit and seed flapjack, and a fig, pitted plum and cherry fruit bake. For free! Looking forwards to tucking in!



If anyone else wants one for free, put this code 97QK3M2M in at graze.com. Its really good.

About to dig into my little box in front of the telly.

Food
tracker bar and fruit salad 186
478
Fruit and seed flapjack and banana nut and fudge mix 550ish
4 coffees 100
=1314

Exercise
2 hours walking
 
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How great is this?!You must be feeling super fantastic!Owh so good for you!Very happy to see these kind of posts!!!
The silver dress maybe will close right up before you thought it would!
Congrats rainbow , keep up the brilliant work and you're nearly there!!!
 
wow wow wow!!

Losing 6lbs is AMAZING!!! GO GIRL!!!!

I bet you feel great!

Keep going with trying teh different japanese stuff - I love raw salmon and tuna and never would have thought it would taste as good as it does.

I feel like I've been eavesdropping on a private conversation between you and Amy however it was so insightful. I think there are more people that struggle with those kinds of issues as adults than we realise but have never been formally diagnosed or given help with how to cope in certain situations. Amy - it sounds like you are such a self-reflexive person and have achieved so much when people around you tried to lower your expectations and keep you down. Thank you for being so open - it really was interesting.
 
:D Thanks people!

Just a quicky as I need to pick my son up from school.... A friend posted a pic to my facebook profile that I had de-tagged myself from. Its a horrible photo, but thought I would post it because there is some difference in my face. As its not all about the body! It was taken about 20 pounds ago. And the other pic is from last week. My lips seem to have lost a lot of weight in particular!

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